Wednesday Mar 14, 2007

published 483 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 20, Number 5
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 4, Number 6

Mississippi Steamboats

Steamboats now strike us as quaint curiosities, things only children or unadventuresome nostalgia buffs can get much of a charge from. But when ships with no sails first appeared, decked out instead with smokestacks and paddlewheels, not to mention promenades, cattle pens, and three-story...

Wednesday Feb 28, 2007

published 497 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 20, Number 4
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 4, Number 5

Poque (or Poqas) to Pokuh

As the rage for primero gradually subsided over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, the most pokerlike pastimes in Europe were brag, pochen, and the newer French game of poque. An updated version of prime, poque was limited to four players, each of whom was dealt five cards before vying...

Tuesday Feb 20, 2007

published 505 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 20, Number 3
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 4, Number 4

Dr. Jerry Cardplayer and the Vying Games That Gave Rise to Poker

Whether playing cards were the work of yawning courtesans, frostbitten prognosticators, or the Devil himself, wood-block printing of standardized decks gradually made them affordable to the common folk of nearly every country and religious persuasion. By the early 15th century, much of...

Tuesday Dec 26, 2006

published 561 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 19, Number 25
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 4, Number 3

The Invention of Playing Cards: A Shivering Shaman and the Concubines of Invention

She'd come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs With men from every walk of life which took her everywhere, But she'd never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts. - Bob Dylan, Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts Anthropologists such as Stewart Culin have traced the...

Wednesday Dec 06, 2006

published 581 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 19, Number 24
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 4, Number 2

Poker: The Story of America's National Pastime

Prologue In this column I'll do my level best to narrate the history of poker, from the game's arrival in New Orleans as 20-card poque (or poqas), its evolution into 52-card poker aboard Mississippi steamboats and later in the camps of Union and Confederate armies, its migration to the...

Saturday Apr 01, 2006

published 830 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 3, Number 3

The Poker World is Flat - Part I

Editor's note: This syndicated article by James McManus first appeared in The New York Times and is being published unedited by Card Player for your reading enjoyment. In his optimistic best seller "The World Is Flat" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), The New York Times columnist...

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